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On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Debbie and this is ***, and we're here to tell you
about personalizing your picture framing. I'd like to talk to you about personalizing
your matting. This picture is a watercolor of a Navajo singer, and he's singing. What
we wanted to do with this matting is show movement. With each of these little designs,
when you look at it, it just makes you want to sing. Nineteen years ago Susan, who is
one of our master mat cutters (she's been with us for over twenty years) won a first
place ribbon in a framing contest. What this does for it is that it has the rich color;
this is an heirloom that's going to last for generations. It's already lasted twenty year,
and it looks as good today as the day that it won its award. Framing is not just, "well
let's find a simple frame." Let's make this a one of a kind. When people walk into your
house that's the first thing that they're going to look at, and they're going to say,
wow, that is really beautiful. This design is hand drawn. On the back of the mat, every
single little tiny cut is all hand drawn on the back. This is one that you cannot duplicate;
I cannot make a pattern of it. If you were to tell Susan to make another one exactly
like it, she couldn't do it. You just could not duplicate this. When you do hand designing
of the matting, it's a one of a kind thing; you're the only one who has this particular
mat.